Guild Wars 2

jesus…ppl will complain about anything…
this forum is just full of whining..this is sick.

can’t believe that almost 3 months after the release this audio bug is still not fixed…

SO is there any meta event on the new island that will spawn a grand chest after completing it? or we just killed the ancient Karka and… that’s just all… ?

this mesmer nerf should be only for pvp…it’s ruining te mesmer in pve.

Karl McLain.5604:

Illusionary Berserker has not received a direct damage decrease. Instead, is seems that the damage reduction you (and I) are seeing is most likely associated this fix:
“Fixed a bug that caused many piercing, boomerang, and bouncing projectiles (those that hit more than 1 target) to continually increase in damage the more targets they hit.”
We are aware that this particular phantasm is now experiencing a significant drop in damage and are looking at getting it back to a more effective state.
Thanks for keeping the post civil and constructive!
-Karl

Could you please explain why those changes were also made in pve? I undertsand why they have been made in pvp but why in pve? I feel that mesmer is just useless now. My chances to hit mobs and do damage with illusions (which is the primary source of my damage) are so low now…especially when you do DE in cursed shores when there is a lot off people and it’s not so easy and now just 1 blind or block is enough to screw my illusions…

I don’t get it why they didn’t make those changes pvp only at least….mesmer is useless now in pve -_-

ryston.7640:

Shukran.4851:

it is not gw1. there is not trinity we had in gw1. it is a mmorpg, gw1 wasn’t.
if you want somthing about gw1, take the lore.

This guy pretty much said it.

Gw2 has next nothing to do with gw1

That’s why the PvP sux…

enjoyincubus.4207:

honestly, i remember when gw1 first came out AND almost none of those game types existed until YEARS after the came out

rofl…then you don’t remember it correctly or you didn’t played the game when it came out because GvG, RA, TA, and HA ( aka Tombs) were already there… 4 pvp modes at the start… and how many do you have in GW2? An awesome total of 1.

I do want better items than exotics so don’t speak as “we” but just “you”. Thanks. Everybody do not share your opinions.

please change the title of thread to : Anet here’s what I want. Why do you speak in the name of the community and all the players?

Zhaitan is the worst endgame boss I have ever fought….I was really disapointed

niclas.7693:

Please tell me what do you think about the end game pve, guys? Does it really satisfy you to grind Plinx and other dynamic events all the time? Is running dungeons for the same gear, what you can buy or craft, is the answer? Oh yeah you can do it for the looks, but come on…

As I read the news about the patch, I became really excited, because a minor gear progression will be available – an incentive to do dungeons. The end game will become interesting, as you have to beat mobs, bosses, the whole dungeon to get better gear, therefore making progression and create a stronger character, which, in my opinion, is what end game should be about. An MMO is about making your character better and better to beat the upcoming content. As things stand currently, you reach lvl 80 and you can get a full exotic (end game) gear in no time. This made a lot of players to quit, because they can’t do anything else, there is no GOAL in the game anymore. That’s where the problem lies, and now Anet is heading into the right direction, in my opinion, with introducing this method. ( I don’t want to come up with WoW, but if it isn’t for their end game raids and gear progression, the game would be pretty much dead now.)

This is why I can’t understand the rage about it. Do you really want to continue farming events for gold, and get a different looking armor, or go into a dungeon with your mates and fight for a better gear and feel good about it? Furthermore, they are introducing this whole system in pieces, which is really a sensible thing to do now. You get the back item and the rings now, and in later major updates we will be able to get more. Most importantly, it will be worthwhile to do dungeons and a lot of players will have an incentive to log in again and play with the game.

Finally, I’m sad that the community is flaming about it like no tomorrow. You don’t know yet, what will it be, but you immediately start writing whine posts and saying things like this is the end of gw2… :/ Just be patient, and you will realize that, in fact, it’s a good thing.

Just my two cents, and /heavy flamesuit on :P

The best post I have read about the upcomming ascended gear!
Well done

let’s boycot this boycot!

can’t wait for the new ascended gear
too bad it’s not a full set armor

another QQ thread… why making another one? just write in the others…

a mod should merge them all or close them.

I am actually happy with the new gear and grind.

rly? ppl crying so much for +10 in stats? wtf?

AsteriskCGY.5931:

Also can consider stones “free” when you get em through dailies.

you can get a mystic forge stone as a reward from Daily? oO
I have always had mystic coins :/

It happened to me a few times and each time it was when I had a ring back from the MF…the ring was always soulbound. Dunno if it’s a bug or just working as intended…

Gempulse.9463:

Andele.1306:

Funny theory, but if we go by lore, chances are its dropped from the “real” boss in the straits, the Dwayna statue, both by the amount of risen knights being behind her temple, it being called the final restingplace of Malchor and Dwayna being “worshiped”/seen as a powerful being related to their powers by gargoyles back in the days just as Balthazar by the Grawl.

Though it is a theory, I think Verone’s theory is the correct one. I’m also not sure why it is a funny theory, as I can actually provide evidence. I will list all the evidence I have gathered.

Why it does not drop from Dwayna, Lyssa, Balthazar, Grenth, Jormag, The Shatterer, Tequatl:

If it dropped from any of these majorly over-farmed bosses, odds are that the staff would have dropped within the first three to four weeks. During the first three to four weeks of the game, all of these events were being farmed into the ground. Thousands and thousands of players have farmed these events, myself included, and still no Final Rest.

Why I strongly believe this staff drops from the four boss chain event in Zho’Qafa Catacombs:

1. This event is in a very secluded southern portion of Straits of Devastation. It might have been completed numerous times around the first three weeks of release, but still not nearly as much as the other major events. Many people I have done the Zho’Qafa escort with have told me that they have never done this event, nor did they even know it was down here, let alone that it spawned a glorious chest.

2. Not very many people currently farm Straits of Devastation, let alone this event. Most people farm in the Cursed Shore or Malchors Leap.

3. Besides the God events, and the dragons, this is the only event chain that I know of, in Orr, or the rest of the world, that spawns a “LARGE chest”. In other words, the chest at the end of this event is a glorious chest, which is the same chest and chest size that is spawned after killing a dragon or any of the God events. —-- If I am mistaken and there are other events that you know of drop a glorious chest, please correct me and specify the location.

4. The event chain is in a tomb. In the tomb, there are coffins everywhere. The staff is called the Final Rest, it is a scythe. A scythe is usually known to be carried by the Grim Reaper. The Grim Reaper is usually associated with death. Death, tomb, final rest, grim reaper, scythe, coffins. All of these match.

Dialogue and Event Clues

1. The event involves escorting a group of NPCs into the catacomb who are searching for lost artifacts.

2. In the first room, one of the NPC’s talks about there being “something valuable” in the catacombs. Mentioning of valuables in the catacombs from the NPCs continues throughout the event.

The biggest clue of them all:

Upon spawning from his coffin, the Legendary Eye of Zhaitan says: “How dare you disturb my resting place!” The Eye of Zhaitan is specifically stating in dialogue that this catacomb is his final resting place. How perfect is it that after he dies he spawns a “LARGE chest.”?

If the Final Rest does not drop here, I will be extremely surprised. But I would bet $100 to anyone that the staff drops here. NOT from the over-farmed God events/Dragons.

Edit:: I would like to reiterate that just because you have done this event chain three times does not mean you entitled to the obtaining the staff. The probability of this staff dropping from this event is most likely extremely low, as it should be.

Your theory sounds good actually. This can be the place where it drops.
Anyway if somebody would like to farm this event and is looking for ppl you can pm me ingame (Psychotic Disorder@Gandara)

Blaeys.3102:

Auesis.7301:

He will ALWAYS be Bubbles to me.

Agreed. And Zhaitan will always be Stinky, Jormag will always be Frosty and Kralkatorik will always be Sparkles.

looks like Teletubbies or Pokemons names to me xD

I don’t get why ppl are talking about a bubble? who/what is he? oO

ofc it does….

My math seems pretty good since a made a nice profit while making attempts to get a precursor.
My observations and every video on YT, posts here just confirm that. Statistically you get an exotic after 5-6 tries.

just take a look at Delolith.9645 post. He used 92 rares. That’s 23 tries. He got 7 exotics. Statistically he had an exotic every 3 tries. Kinda lucky but still…that’s what I am talking about.

yup an answer from the devs would be appreciated.

actually there is a pretty simple way to minimize the lose and make profit from making attempts to get a precursor.
the chance of getting an item of higher rarity is about 17-20% so that means every 5-6 try will get you an exotic from 4 rares. If you want to lose less $$ and even make some nice profit ( liek in my case) is to use green items. Let’s say that you already made 4 tries in the Mystic Forge with greens and what you got back was also a green. That meens that the next try will, in theory and statistically, grant you an exotic. This is just predicting. So in the 5th attempt, you put your 4 rares… Ofc this wont be always the fifth attempt that will grant you a better item…sometimes you will have two in a row and after that 10 tries will get you just trash. But in my case this is working pretty much like that. First I put greens…after a few trash items I put my rares and cross fingers that this attempt will be the good one. This way I made like something around 10g this weekend. 90% of the exotics I got back was named. The most expansive so far I got was Honor of Humanity.

lack of guild halls, GvG, ladder, mAT,any other sPvP mode other than “capture” …

looks a bit different than in GW1
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8xprtasYk1rsvw24o3_1280.jpg

it would be awesome if they could add a jumping puzzle similar to the clock tower somewhere in Tyria…

Best Jumping Puzzle so far… I will miss it.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Glory is for competitive PVP. It’s purpose is to create prestige for people who are good at killing other players on a level playing field. Activities, on the other hand, are a grab bag of mini-games that shake up the gameplay for a bit. Yes, it’s—**gasp** —fun. The fact that the glory bar is even displayed is just a side effect of us leveraging our awesome competitive PVP framework to host them. (It is really cool by the way. For example, did you know that you play activities with players from other worlds?)

But now that we’ve got that straight, I’m super interested in learning what you guys think you should be getting out of activities. Trick or treat bags were sort of a trial, but I think it worked out pretty well so we may do similar things in the future. Keg brawl doesn’t have anything like that, but it does have achievements. Would that compel you to play? Something else?

Thanks for your time!

I don’t understand why, like in GW1, you didn’t make a gamer title for playing such mini games….

not sure if OP is serious or just trolling. ok so let’s rename the city too….Quaggan’s Arch!!!

I want a title too…The Mad King :p

Caps Lock was a must in the title?

Battle Isles please….Guild Halls…GvG….
I still have hope

no more Mad King dungeon….
that was the best place to farm exotics
I will miss it.

best jumping puzzle !
made it multiple times just for the fun!

TIESTO.9058:

Usually i’m pretty good at jump puzzles

looks like you are not and…

Currently im going at 20fps standing still..:/me..:(

try to lower the graphics to the lowets possible and think about upgrading your PC .

because this only a game and the world will not collapse if you dont get a shiny item from this event especially when out of your window there is a storm and people are dying….you can die…your family, friends…
sorry but if I would have been in such situation I wouldn’t give a kitten about the event but care about my safety and my family.

seriously…. is an event more important than your life or your family in this moment? oO

I actually enjoyed the clock tower and it was fun for ME

an overclocked asus GTX 670

is there a known recipe with Large Skulls beside this one Eldritch Scroll + Mystic Coin (40) + Large Skull (5) + Crystal (5) = Gaze [Focus] ?

looks like it does

and the arrows are different…

Because after 5 years of developement the devs were able to make only 1 game mode and 4 maps…

20×20px is….the size of the image that should be there for the sigil -_-""

and you call that a friendship? oO

There was no Magic Find in Guild Wars 1 and the game was awesome without it. Everybody had the same drop rates and it was fair. Now we have Magic Find in Guild Wars 2 but Anet doesn’t even bother to say how it is working exactly and what does it affect…
So you have those +50% mf in gem shop and in theory you pay real cash for gems to next buy the boost…but you are paying for something that you don’t really know how is it actually working. Seriously Anet…wtf? This is not serious. If you are selling something then at least explain us how Magic Find really works.

If I’m right…actually Anet could be sued in the EU for selling a product without any description of how it works.

I actually get more… I end up always with more ectos than salvaged items =)